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Taylor Swift eras wallpaper 🪕🤍

I’m enchanted to announce my next tour:  Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour, a journey through the musical eras of my career (past and present!) The first leg of the tour will be in stadiums across the US, with international dates to be announced as soon as we can! Feeling like the luckiest person alive because I get to take these brilliant artists out on tour with me: Paramore, beabadoobee, Phoebe Bridgers, girl in red, MUNA, HAIM, GAYLE, Gracie Abrams and OWENN. I can’t WAIT to see your gorgeous faces out there. It’s been a long time coming 🥰

Just a friendly reminder that I would never have thought it was possible to go back and remake my previous work, uncovering lost art and forgotten gems along the way, if you hadn’t emboldened me. Red is about to be mine again, but it has always been ours. Tonight we begin again. Red (my version) is out now.

https://taylor.lnk.to/redtaylorsversion

I know some of you thought that would be like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there’s no right answer BUT…you played it good & right. Congrats pals, you guessed the correct titles and feature artists on Red (my version). The vault tracks will feature Chris Stapleton, Phoebe Bridgers, Mark Foster and the first song Ed Sheeran and I ever wrote together the first time we met in 2012❗️I can’t express my gratitude enough to these artists for helping me bring these songs to life. I can’t wait til we can dust off our highest hopes and relive these memories together. We’ll also be making a bunch of new ones too, since Red (Taylor’s Version) includes so many songs you haven’t heard yet. Til then, I’ll be counting down and picturing it all in my head. In burning red.

My "letter" to @taylorswift :

Hi Taylor!! I wanted to tell you a little about myself and how your music helps me. I saw you at #repTourStLouis and you were incredible as usual! My dream is to meet you someday. You have gotten me through my constant Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy pain of 16 years. The rep Tour gave me something to enjoy and temporarily forget about my pain. 

I got RSD at age 12 and am now 28.  I tore 2 ligaments in my right ankle and it never healed. It developed into RSD. I now have it in my right foot/leg, left foot/leg, right arm/hand, left arm/hand, back, and neck. I have a pain pump and a neurostimulator but I still have horrible pain everyday. I also am on a lot of medications for my RSD and other diseases like Rheumatoid Arthritis and Trigeminal Neuralgia. Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome is where the brain is telling your body you are in pain when there is no injury. The nerves are misfiring. RSD pain is rated higher than natural childbirth and amputation on the McGill pain scale.

The only thing that puts a smile on my face is listening to your music. Your music helps me to move more and to push through the pain. On the 1989 World Tour, I had to go in a wheelchair because 6 days before I had my pain pump implanted inside me. I had a complication of a spinal fluid leak so I couldn't sit up or stand. The doctor wanted to wait to see if it got better so I waited but on the day you were in St. Louis, I begged my doctor to do a blood patch so I could go to the concert. He did so I went in a wheelchair.

I know the world is pretty crazy right now. My only dream is to meet you someday. Taylor, you've gotten me through some days where I didn't want to be alive because of the excruciating I was in. I'm loving "Lover", "folklore", "evermore", and now "Love Story: Taylor's Version". Your music just speaks to me and helps me forget that I live in pain.

It would mean everything to meet you someday. I love you so much Taylor and I will ALWAYS stand behind you! I can't wait to see you in concert again! 💜

-Ashley Hettenhausen

@taylornation @nhett

Happy 1 year anniversary to one of my FAVORITE albums ever…folklore! When I need to escape reality, I play any song on #folklore and I feel so much better. @taylorswift , all of your music helps me to get through each day when I’m in pain from my chronic pain disease. Some of my favs are “august” and “the last great american dynasty”. Thank you for creating this masterpiece! Love you so much!! 💜

https://taylor.lnk.to/thelakesoriginal

Collage by Graham Tolbert

Photo by James Reynolds